omniscient

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God cannot be glamorous because God is omnipotent, omniscient -- all these too far above us.

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  1. adjective Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator.
  2. noun One having total knowledge.
  3. noun God. Used with the.

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  • Some kind of omniscient external body through whose eyes you see the story. —  Jonathan Harris collects stories
  • God cannot be glamorous because God is omnipotent, omniscient -- all these too far above us. —  Virginia Postrel on glamour
  • The Tampies aren't omniscient, they aren't supermen, and you damn well will not behave or think otherwise. —  Warhorse
  • It was not her place to reprove a man of thirty-six, but she considered this use of the word omniscient slightly profane. —  The Chinese Shawl - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 05
  • Babaji's remark had been his way of saying: 'I shall be ever with you Though Babaji and Lahiri Mahasaya were omniscient, and had no need of communicating with each other through me or any other intermediary, the great ones often condescend to play a part in the human drama. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
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  1. Medieval Latin omnisciēns, omniscient- : Latin omni-, omni- + Latin sciēns, scient-, present participle of scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French omniscient = Spanish Portuguese omnisciente, from Middle Latin omniscien(t-)s, all-knowing, from Latin omnis, all, + scien(t-)s, knowing: see scient, science.
 

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